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778 Artists 35 Workshops in 27 Cities 3,247 20 Creative Capital Project EMPOWERING ARTISTS 2011 3,247 20 CREATIVE SUBMISSIONS for the 2012 CAPITAL Creative Capital grants in Visual PROJECT Arts and Film/ Video PREMIERES at venues across the country Artists showed their work in prestigious festivals and were honored with major fellowships: 9 SCREENINGS AT THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 25+ ARTISTS AT THE NEW YORK AND MIAMI ART FAIRS 3 ARTISTS AT THE VENICE BIENNALE 4 PRODUCTIONS AT THE PHILADELPHIA LIVE ARTS FESTIVAL 5 GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIPS 3 PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA AwARDS 2 TED GLOBAL PRESENTERS 778 ARTISTS participated in the Professional Development Program through 35 WORKSHOPS IN 27 CITIES 46 NEW CREATIVE CAPITAL GRANTS to be announced in early 2012, bringing our total to 372 SUPPORTED PROJECTS! 2011 YEAR END REPORT WHAt’s inside LETTER FROM RUBY WHAT AN INCREDIBLE YEAR! Creative Capital dived headfirst into its second ARTIST MILESTONES PROJECT PREMIERES decade of providing financial and advisory support to artists across the country, starting with our open grant application process, new services for grantees, Our grantees are incredible artists Twenty Creative Capital-supported subsidized Professional Development Program (PDP) workshops and more. whose work has been rewarded projects in Emerging Fields, I’m proud to say that we have helped more artists through PDP, received a with prominent awards, fellowships Film/Video, Literature, Performing near-record number of submissions to our grant programs and piloted more and exhibitions throughout the year. Arts and Visual Arts premiered in new services than ever before. Our grantees have accomplished a great deal This section highlights important 2011. as well: they have published books, opened major exhibitions, won film festival achievements by our grantees. awards, and received countless accolades and fellowships. FESTIVALS & CONFERENCES In 2011, we have taken many steps to make ourselves a stronger organization, PDP including growing our board of directors, expanding our systems to better serve Our staff and grantees presented, artists and engaging an incredible fleet of evaluators for our grantmaking process. Our Professional Development exhibited and participated in some Program (PDP) offered pilot of the world’s biggest and most Most importantly, though, we’ve expanded our artist services significantly this workshops and reached new influential festivals, fairs and year, making changes that will benefit current, future and “alumni” grantees communities in 2011. With the conferences in 2011. (whose Creative Capital-supported projects have already premiered). Our support of the Kresge Foundation, enhanced services include more structured interaction among grantees; this was our second year of assigning new grantees to committed mentor teams; and promoting grantee offering Workshop Subsidy Grants, GRANTMAKING access to phone-in clinics, online tools and other resources that can make which were provided to 25 partner a valuable difference in their careers. New grantees will be better prepared to take organizations across the country. Over the past 12 years, Creative advantage of the resources that we offer, and alumni grantees will have access to Capital has awarded grants to 326 resources they need to continue to succeed in fulfilling their goals. projects representing 406 artists. CELEBRATIONS In February 2011, we opened This report takes you through the past year as seen through our eyes: what our grant application to artists our grantees have accomplished, what we’ve helped them do and what we’ve If you know Creative Capital, you nationwide, beginning the process achieved with the help of our essential supporters. know we’re not all work and no fun. of selecting our 2012 grantees in This year we had a lot to celebrate, Film/Video and Visual Arts. Teams from our second annual Benefit & of national arts professionals Auction to a special gathering in and artists served as readers, Miami, and we’re proud to share evaluators and panelists to review these events with you. artists’ submissions. RUBY LERNER President & Executive Director, Creative Capital CREATIVE CAPITAL is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in five disciplines: Emerging Fields, Film/Video, Literature, Performing Arts and Visual Arts. Working in long-term partnership with artists, Creative Capital’s pioneering approach to support combines funding, counsel and career development services to enable each project’s success and foster sustainable practices for its grantees. In its first decade, Creative Capital has committed more than $20 million in financial and advisory support to 326 projects representing 406 artists, and has reached an additional 3,700 artists in more than 50 communities around the country through its Professional Development Program. 2 CREATIVE CAPITAL EMPOWERING ARTISTS 2011 YEAR END REPORT 3 JANUARY FEBRUARY GRANTMAKING ARTIST MILESTONES Deb Olin Unferth (2009 Literature) premieres Revolution: Creative Capital staff travel Paul Vanouse presents his Creative The Year I Fell in Love and Went the country hosting Information Capital project, Latent Figure Protocol, to Join the War, a memoir that Sessions for artists interested at Transmediale Festival in Berlin. receives reviews and features in in applying for the 2012 round of BOOKFORUM, Publisher’s Weekly, grants. More than 1,200 artists Robert Karimi is in residence at the New York Times and the Los nationwide take part in these Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis to Angeles Times. sessions. develop his Creative Capital project, The Cooking Show. FESTIVALS & CONFERENCES PROJECT PREMIERES Chris Doyle’s solo exhibition at Sam Lee Gallery in Los Angeles At the College Art Association Daniel Alexander Jones (2000 The Sundance Film Festival is opens to a rave review in the Conference in NYC, Sean Elwood, Performing Arts) premieres Jomama teeming with Creative Capital Los Angeles Times. Creative Capital’s Director of Jones * Radiate at SoHo Rep, NYC. grantees! Marshall Curry and Programs & Initiatives, leads a Sam Cullman, Braden King, Lynn Mason Bates and Anne Patterson panel discussion in which grantees Cauleen Smith (2008 Film/Video) Hershman Leeson, Billy Luther revive their Creative Capital project, Hasan Elahi, Laura Poitras and presents Remote Viewing at and Deke Weaver present their Mercury Soul, at the New World Kerry Skarbakka discuss putting The Kitchen, NYC. Creative Capital-funded projects, Symphony in Miami. their personal safety at risk to and alumni grantees Jem Cohen, create their work. Los Angeles Poverty Department Miranda July and Christopher Luca Buvoli wins the Barnett and (2009 Performing Arts) premieres Munch present films as well. Annalee Newman Award. State of Incarceration at Highways Banker White is selected as a GRANTMAKING Performance Space, Santa Monica. Sundance Documentary Fund Brent Green’s Gravity Was Fellow for 2011. Everywhere Back Then screens For the 2012 Visual Arts and Jennie C. Jones (2008 Visual Arts) at The Kitchen in NYC and the Film/Video grants, Creative exhibits Counterpoint at Yerba Buena Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Capital begins accepting Letters Center for the Arts, San Francisco. ARTIST MILESTONES of Inquiry from artists nationwide. Alan Gilbert’s (2006 Literature) Trimpin begins his residency at Late in the Antenna Fields is Stanford University to complete PDP published by Futurepoem. the development of his Creative Capital project, The Gurs Zyklus, At the Latino Arts Network in Los a performance that combines Angeles, Creative Capital pilots a instrumental and vocal music, new Spanish-language workshop, PDP sculpture, and spoken word. Taller Profesional de Desarollo Para Artistas, to help bicultural artists Creative Capital presents a Billy Luther opens the exhibition navigate the challenges of presenting workshop for 24 artists in GRAB at the Smithsonian their work. PDP also presents Jacksonville, with the Florida National Museum of the workshops in Pittsburgh and NYC. Division of Cultural Affairs. American Indian in New York. 4 CREATIVE CAPITAL EMPOWERING ARTISTS 2011 YEAR END REPORT 5 MARCH APRIL PDP ARTIST MILESTONES Real Community Engagement, a Lisa D’Amour of PearlDamour is a new workshop about how to build 2011 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize support for socially engaged art for Drama for her play Detroit, projects, is piloted at Aljira, A Center which is scheduled for a Broadway for Contemporary Art, in Newark, NJ. run in 2012. More workshops in Las Vegas and Reno with the Nevada Arts Council, Rebecca Solnit’s Creative California College of the Arts Capital project, Infinite City: A San in San Francisco, the Louisiana Francisco Atlas, wins the Northern Division of the Arts in Baton Rouge California Book Award for Creative and the Tucson Pima Arts Council. Nonfiction. FESTIVALS & CONFERENCES Richard Pell exhibits elements of Sam Van Aken has a solo show PROJECT PREMIERES his Center for PostNatural History with Ronald Feldman Fine Arts at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, at the Armory Show in NYC. Ledoh’s (2006 Performing Arts) and at the Royal Institute of Naeem Mohaiemen is included COLORMEAMERICA, a Butoh- Science in Melbourne, Australia. at the Sharjah Biennial in the based multimedia performance United Arab Emirates. project, has its Creative Capital- Heidi Latsky Dance performs their supported premiere at the Joyce Creative Capital project, GIMP, SoHo in NYC. at International CREA Festival in Rude Mechs’ (2006 Performing Kathmandu, Nepal. Arts)
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